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The Suicide Squad is a 2021 superhero film from James Gunn. He has been behind The Guardians Of The Galaxy and not much else. The only similarity this film had with Guardians Of The Galaxy was the verity of the song choice. Otherwise, this film was completely different.

The Suicide Squad is about a problem developing on the Corto Maltese. The new government is incredibly secretive. The only thing to get out is this certain project called "Starfish." The Suicide Squad is then sent to solve the problem lead by Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) and followed by Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), Peacemaker (John Cena), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchain), and many more. Also lead by from behind the scene by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis).

I was pretty excited for this film. Right when it start, I had one of those this is really happening moments. I ever read many of the original Suicide Squad comics and watched the Dirty Dozen because James Gunn said it would be sort of like that. It ended feeling like both of those things. The Suicide Squad had the same feeling as The Dirty Dozen because you had no clue who was going to die and it had somewhat of a familiar setting, It felt like the comics because of how wacky some of the villains were. It also had Starro appear in the end which it is hard to not giggle a bit when he is trying to be menacing. This film just nailed the feel. Halfway through the movie, I was trying to figure out who would live and who would die but I really couldn't. I just came to the conclusion, maybe they all will. It is just a really unpredictable movie. The story also made you feel for many parts of the characters. They did have some randomly plugged backstories for some of the characters which one of them felt plugged but the rest felt natural and gave some much needed background to some characters. When it came to the end of the film, that really helped make the characters not feel as expendable as they have felt early on. James Gunn also used some of the characters from the first that were actually good characters. He also used that as background for some character too. Overall, the characters were fantastic.

The action was some of the best I have seen in a superhero film in while. Marvel has just been making all of their action look like cartoon or some hand to hand combat that gets boring after a while. This film did all kinds of stuff, gun action, fist combat, and just had some fun scenes of just tearing through many villains. The action ended up feeling fun and stylized unlike some movie series like Fast And The Furious and Marvel films. Sometimes they used CGI blood which I have never been a fan off and sometimes it does end of looking pretty bad. The action is incredibly amazing though.

The acting obviously had to be good so the characters would also feel attachable which they ended up feeling so that means the acting was also accomplished. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn was obviously good as it has been in the last few movies. Some fo Jai Courtney and Joel Kinnaman. John Cena has started to become a way better actor since Playing With Fire. Idris Elba as Bloodsport was also a fantastic choice. He has honestly never been bad in a movie. Everybody else also did a pretty good job.

The Suicide Squad is the movie I was looking. It was incredibly fun and also had some really fantastic characters even if one of their backstories felt plugged. I would recommend this film to anybody who has fun with action movies and wants to have a good time.

Luca is a 2021 animated feature from the studio Pixar. It had a right to Disney plus release which was sort of disappointing because theaters were open and it probably would have made some good money. It would have also been good to see all of the beautiful colors on the big screen.

Luca is about a kid named Luca (Jacob Tremblay). He lives down in the ocean with his parents who don't let him go anywhere near the surface because of the humans. He then meets this one kid, Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer), who goes to the surface frequently. They both go into town and meet a girl named Gulia (Emma Berman). She is really training hard to win the race against the town bully. The kids both want to win the race as well so they could get enough money to buy a vespa, but Luca's parents are also trying to bring Luca back down into the ocean so nobody finds out his true identity.

Pixar has made some of the best movies in recent years from Coco to Incredibles 2 to Soul. They have all been some of the best movies I have seen in recent years. They have also been behind their fair share of just mediocre movies like Onward and The Good Dinosaur. I think Luca goes right with the mediocre movies. It was fun and had some fantastic imagery but the story just felt put together to visit this location and test out the animation that they used. The story was just bland and didn't really paint a good picture of who the main character is. So it was really hard to care for Luca when we didn't know anything about him and why he really wants to leave his house. The bully also is stereotypical and has his entourage of people he hits or gets mad at when the hero does something he doesn't like. The movie didn't really even have that good of point. It was really just get away from your parents and win a vespa. That being said the story still ended up being fun enough to enjoy the rest of the movie and it never really made me feel bored, it just made feel no connection or empathy for/with the characters.

The animation was obviously going to look like a picture. They did the realistic backgrounds like they did in Onward and Soul for this film. It really worked to the films advantage because of how beautiful it ended up looking. They also toned up the brightness of the colors. That is why I was saying it would be nice to see the film in the theaters. The character animation had a little different style than what Pixar has been doing and I thought it worked. All of the animation was superb.

Luca felt more like an experiment than a full fledged movie and that ended hurting it a little but the animation still made the movie look like a postcard. I would recommend Luca to anybody who wants to watch a fun movie with the family and to people who have Disney Plus.

In The Heights is a musical that came from the mind of Lin-Manuel Miranda. He was behind Hamilton and was also in the sequel to Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns. He had the idea for this film when he was at the age of nineteen in college.

In The Heights is about a man named, Usnavi (Anthony Ramos) who is dreaming of working at his fathers old bar in the Dominican Republic. At the moments, he lives in Washington Heights in New York City with many other immigrants from Dominican Republic. He makes plans to buy the old bar but a love interest (Melissa Barrera) and also family are both standing between him and his dream.

When I heard about this film back in twenty nineteen I didn't really know what to think. I have never seen Hamilton so I am not really too familiar with Lin-Manuel Miranda's music style. So I didn't know how the music was going to end up being in the film. I also had no clue who the director was (John M. Cho). So I was naturally just thinking it was going to be alright and I walked out of the theater thinking it was a little above that standard. I was humming the opening number quite frequently the rest of the day. That was really the only song I came away with remembering. The music was good though. Nothing made me wince of look around the theater awkwardly like in the Momma Mia movies. The film ended up being a fun time. That was what I was expecting and that is what it delivered. It is by no means at the same level was West Side Story which is what Lin-Manuel Miranda looked at for inspiration. The songs even crammed in many conversation traits just as West Side Story did. He ended up going for more of a modern day feel with much of the music he wrote for the film. There was always a bass drum of beat you hear in many modern day songs. I didn't really make the songs bad or boring but I didn't really allow any of them to stand out besides for the opening and I guess one towards the end of the film called "Carnival." But the setting that was somewhat created felt really realistic. Sort of like Do The Right Thing. That movie had a town that you feel like you lived in and I would be stunned if Lin-Manuel Miranda says he has never seen that film before just because of how similar the town felt. The main plot wasn't anything out of the ordinary for a musical. Someone loves someone and she or he gets in the way of one of their dreams but then they realize love is more important that anything you can buy. So nothing with the plot structure and it was executed pretty much the same way you would think it would turn out besides for some events towards the end of the film. So that made the film feel a little predictable, but it didn't make the movie bad because of the setting and the songs did end up propelling the story a little farther.

The acting was above par with most musicals. Most of the time it looks terrible when actors are trying to sing along to someone else singing the song like Little Shop Of Horrors. They went above that and sang their own songs. Which apparently Mary Poppins Returns also did which is pretty cool. They topped West Side Story with that. Otherwise, there wasn't much emotional acting required because most of it was told through song which it should be in a musical.

The other problem I had with the film was the transitions. They would often go from a dark scene to an incredibly bright scene and it would make you blink. Or going from a quiet scene to a loud scene. That would ruin the mood or upset the viewers eyes. It was just really annoying. Editors have been getting more careless in recent movies. They need to try to make their editing more like the Duffer Brothers. They were behind the show Stranger Things and they would ease you into a scene perfectly. More movies need to take notes from that show and especially this one.

In The Heights was a blast of a movie that sadly didn't really leave any songs to remember and had some sloppy transitions. I would recommend In The Heights to anybody who like musicals or has seen Hamilton.